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Researcher · The University of Western Australia · Australia

Nicolas Fay

Nicolas Fay publishes mostly in Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science and Social Psychology, on topics such as Language and cultural evolution, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition and Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation.

ORCID 0000-0001-9866-2800 OpenAlex
World rank
#181,179
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#6,288
of 140,210
Works
144
Citations
3.6k
Citations per work
24.7
h-index
31
i10-index 54Top 0.1% in Cultural Studies
Nicolas Fay

What does Nicolas Fay research?

Nicolas Fay's work is mostly in Psychology (27%), Social Sciences (24%), Computer Science (10%).

Social Sciences: 73 works · 50.8% of their workPsychology: 39 works · 27.1% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 14 works · 9.9% of their workSocial Psychology: 14 works · 9.9% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 11 works · 7.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 34 works · 23.7% of their workCultural Studies: 17 works · 12.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 17 works · 11.7% of their workEverything else: 57 works · 39.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 14 works · 9.6% of their workComputer Science: 14 works · 9.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 14 works · 9.6% of their workTHEIR WORKNicolas Fay144works
Physical Sciences10%Social Sciences51%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Psychology3927.1%
    2. Social Sciences3423.7%
  2. Everything else5739.6%
    1. Computer Science149.6%
  1. 1Cultural Studies12% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science12% of their works
  3. 3Social Psychology10% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology10% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence10% of their works
  6. 6Developmental and Educational Psychology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Nicolas Fay's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Cultural Evolution, Language, Phylogenetics, Social Learning, Social Interaction, Altruism, Cooperation and Metaphor.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Cultural Evolution662 topics
  2. Language662 topics
  3. Phylogenetics461 topic
  4. Social Learning461 topic
  5. Social Interaction252 topics
  6. Altruism201 topic
  7. Cooperation201 topic
  8. Metaphor201 topic
  9. Time201 topic
  10. Fake News181 topic
  11. Misinformation181 topic
  12. Child Development131 topic
  13. Theory of Mind131 topic
  14. Conversation Analysis121 topic
  15. Interactional Linguistics121 topic
  16. Markov Decision Processes121 topic
  17. Spoken Dialogue Systems121 topic
  18. Gesture91 topic
  19. Sign Language91 topic

Where does Nicolas Fay work?

Nicolas Fay's main affiliation in the publication record is The University of Western Australia, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Nicolas Fay have?

OpenAlex counts 144 works and 3,554 citations for Nicolas Fay, an h-index of 31, ranking #181,179 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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